Dream trippers : global Daoism and the predicament of modern spirituality / David A. Palmer and Elij...
Dream trippers : global Daoism and the predicament of modern spirituality / David A. Palmer and Elij...
Dream trippers : global Daoism and the predicament of modern spirituality / David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler.
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Call Numbers
G 2019/0270
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
ix, 326 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The subject -- The mountain -- The trippers -- The cloud wanderers -- The encounters -- The scholar-practitioners -- The predicament -- Epilogue: the cosmic orgasms.
Publication information
Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2017.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Anthropologists David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler explore the globalization of Daoism: the interactions between international spiritual tourists, traditional Chinese monks, and American scholar-practitioners at the sacred Daoist mountain of Huashan, China. Palmer and Siegler show how the spiritual and religious histories of China and the West inte...
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Dream trippers : global Daoism and the predicament of modern spirituality / David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Date Copyright
©2017
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Call Numbers
G 2019/0270
Record Identifier
74VKV0voXvPX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV0voXvPX
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ISBN
9780226481760 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
022648176X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780226484846 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
022648484X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
DDC
299.514
MMS ID
991024224103902626
